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yakov_a_jerkov — 23.04.2022 В продолжение "25th Amendment и прочее"

Иглесиас хорошо подытожил:

Democrats say Trump is a dangerous crook and most top Republicans agree but want him to be president anyway.

Ну, и о нормализации прямого и явного вранья политиками. Benjy Sarlin хорошо написал:

This is the hardest thing to convey about the Trump era without eyerolling, but it was not nearly as common for politicians to outright lie to one's face pre-2016 and considered a really big deal when they did. "All politicians lie!" is a truism that enables the worst lying.

Politicians spun on a minute-by-minute basis. They used misleading statistics or talking points. They selectively emphasized positive news and deemphasized negative news. They talked trash in private. Outright "black is white" statements were genuinely a big deal.

People complained the news was reluctant to use the word "lies," part of the reason is politicians once went much further out of their way to avoid making statements that could unambiguously be called out as lies. You can say that was slimy too! But again, not the same thing.

To close this loop, “It is actually a good thing my ally was caught in a blatant lie, because it shows his subservience to me” is just off the map. It’s an entirely different way of thinking.

Маккарти заявляет, что "The New York Times' reporting on me is totally false and wrong", в то время как этот reporting не просто totally right, он дословно right.

И в статье сказано, что reporting основывается на аудиозаписях. То есть Маккарти должен был понимать, что после его "fake news!" записи будут опубликованы и его ложь станет очевидной.

Но это для него куда меньшая проблема, чем не заявить "fake news!"

Эта запись в DW: https://yakov-a-jerkov.dreamwidth.org/2019462.html

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